2024 American League Division Series

2024 American League Division Series
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season New York Yankees (3) Aaron Boone 94–68 (.580), GA: 3 Kansas City Royals (1) Matt Quatraro 86–76 (.531), GB: 6+1⁄2
Dates	October 5–10
Television	TBS/TruTV Max
TV announcers	Bob Costas, Ron Darling, and Jon Morosi
Radio	ESPN
Radio announcers	Karl Ravech, Eduardo Pérez, and Tim Kurkjian
Umpires	Lance Barksdale, Lance Barrett, Ryan Blakney, Mark Carlson (crew chief), Adam Hamari, Roberto Ortiz
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season Cleveland Guardians (3) Stephen Vogt 92–69 (.571), GA: 6+1⁄2 Detroit Tigers (2) A. J. Hinch 86–76 (.531), GB: 6+1⁄2
Dates	October 5–12
Television	TBS/TruTV (Games 1–3, 5) TNT (Game 4) Max
TV announcers	Brian Anderson, Jeff Francoeur, and Lauren Jbara
Radio	ESPN
Radio announcers	Dave O'Brien and Gregg Olson
Umpires	Adam Beck, Ramon De Jesus, Chad Fairchild, Nick Mahrley, Todd Tichenor (crew chief), Jim Wolf
ALWC	Detroit Tigers over Houston Astros (2–0) Kansas City Royals over Baltimore Orioles (2–0)
← 2023 ALDS

The 2024 American League Division Series (ALDS) were the two best-of-five playoff series in Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2024 postseason to determine the participating teams of the 2024 American League Championship Series (ALCS). These matchups were:

• (1) New York Yankees (AL East champions) vs. (5) Kansas City Royals (Wild Card Series winner): Yankees win series, 3–1.
• (2) Cleveland Guardians (AL Central champions) vs. (6) Detroit Tigers (Wild Card Series winner): Guardians win series, 3–2.

The team with the better regular season record (higher seed) of each series hosted Games 1 and 2, and in Cleveland's case, hosted Game 5. The lower seeded team hosted Games 3 and 4.^[1][2]